Quotes About Racism

Racist behaviour must be stigmatised so that it can be no more.

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

For me racism doesn't belong to football and it doesn't belong in our society any more.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

In the charged and complicated spheres of identity, politics, philosophy, and power in America, though, racism was not situational but systemic.

No arguments you may use, no facts you may present, no logic you may array will in the slightest affect these people," the Kansas editor William Allen White, who opposed the Klan in an unsuccessful race for governor, wrote. "They have no capacity for receiving arguments, no minds for retaining or sifting facts and no mental processes that will hold logic. If they had any of these they would not be Kluxers.

The Ku Klux Klan," the Reverend Charles Jefferson, the pro-Klan author of Roman Catholicism and the Ku Klux Klan, said, "is the Mussolini of America.

Extremism, racism, nativism, and isolationism, driven by fear of the unknown, tend to spike in periods of economic and social stress

the fact that we have arrived at a place in the life of the nation where a grand wizard of the KKK can claim, all too plausibly, that he is at one with the will of the president of the United States seems an unprecedented moment.

For Lewis, the civil rights struggle always centered on whether the best of the American soul (the grace and the love, the godliness and the generosity) could finally win out over the worst (the racism and the hatred, the fear and the cruelty).

Extremism, racism, nativism, and isolationism, driven by fear of the unknown, tend to spike in periods of economic and social stress—a period like our own.

the American physician Samuel Cartwright identifying in 1851 a mental disorder, drapetomania, evident only in slaves. The sole symptom was "the desire to run away from slavery" and the cure was to "whip the devil out of them

Feeling they were being treated as inferiors by the West, and suffering from American and European racism, the Japanese concluded that they had to make their own place in the world, using force to pursue the manifest destiny of the `imperial way'.

Cannibalism is a Western, white imposition. A retrospective racism. Tribal memory, collective dreams and wishful thinking should, if not silence, then at least reduce to a tearful academic whisper any attempt to discredit the lives of Indians. Haven't they suffered enough?

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Nationalism, racism, and other toxic prejudices likewise corrode our own global society. We live in a world in which slavery has not been eradicated and, if we are not vigilant, may again flourish under a new dispensation of global inequality.16

Nevertheless, every Nazi has Jewish ancestors. Every White supremacist has Middle Eastern ancestors. Every racist has African, Indian, Chinese, American Indian, and Aboriginal Australian ancestors, as does everyone else, and not just in the sense that humankind is an African species in deep prehistory, but at a minimum from classical times, and probably much more recently. Racial purity is a pure fantasy.

none more so than pigmentation. Racism has many definitions; a simple version is that racism is a prejudice concerning ancestral descent that can result in discriminatory action.

Racism is hateful bullying, and a means of reinforcing self-identity at the expense of others:

The Arab," for comparison, he concludes, "is little more than an eater up of other men's produce; he is a destroyer rather than a creator, and he is unprolific"). Though wince-inducing now, these sorts of views were not necessarily normal and not necessarily uncontroversial then, and we shouldn't assume that these were universal British Victorian values.

That, of course, does not mean the racism doesn't exist.

Where there are those who honour their locality and celebrate a sense of belonging, others can be cast out as not belonging. And here are the seeds of racism and persecution. When the romantic reifies the land, ugly things might be done in the name of that land.

Ich konnte all die Juden in dieser Welt zu zerstören, aber ich lasse ein wenig drehte-on,so können Sie herausfinden, warum ich sie getötet...